Michael Johansson, Real Life Tetris, 2024. Installation of everyday objects
Courtesy of the artist, Helsinki Contemporary and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
About The Work
For CHART in Tivoli 2024, Michael Johansson has created two new site-specific installations that continue his ongoing sculptural series Real Life Tetris. Johansson’s sculptures transform everyday objects and spaces into places for artistic intervention. His works subtly comment on our experience of place, space and our relationship to objects.
Johansson deals with ordinary objects we all recognize but in a way far from the ordinary. When objects are morphed into precisely stacked shapes and connected to a certain place, they are transformed into catalysts of new meanings.
Michael Johansson, Real Life Tetris, 2024. Installation of everyday objects
Courtesy of the artist, Helsinki Contemporary and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
Michael Johansson, Real Life Tetris, 2024. Installation of everyday objects
Courtesy of the artist, Helsinki Contemporary and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
Portrait of Michael Johansson
Courtesy of the artist and Helsinki Contemporary. Photo by Gustaf Waesterberg
About The Artist
Michael Johansson (b. 1975, Sweden) is known for his sculptures that use found objects and everyday items to create new forms, structures and patterns. After studies at the Art Academy in Trondheim, Norway, and Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee, Germany, Michael Johansson took his master’s degree at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden in 2005. Since then, he has exhibited frequently both within and outside of Sweden. Johansson currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Some of Johansson’s most important exhibitions include Museum Voorlinden (NL), Galleri Andersson/Sandström (SE), Göteborg Art Museum (SE), Helsinki Contemporary (FI), Ystads Art Museum (SE) and Vigeland-museet (NO), as well as group exhibitions at Malmö Art Museum (SE), Bergen Art Museum (NO), Royal British Society of Sculptors (UK), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (RU) and Meessen de Clercq (BE). He has carried out several major public artwork commissions both in Sweden and abroad.
Michael Johansson is represented by Helsinki Contemporary.
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